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About Us

This web site is developed and maintained by the community of MX & former MEPIS users in order to support the exciting MX Linux in collaboration with the antiX Community. MEPIS itself is on indefinite hold, yet many users nonetheless run some form of MEPIS as their standard OS, and will continue to find support and a friendly reception on the MX Linux Forum.

Origin

MX Linux began in a discussion about future options among members of the MEPIS community in December 2013. Developers from antiX then joined them, bringing the ISO build system as well as the Live-USB/DVD technology. The name "MX" was chosen to combine the first letter of Mepis with the last of antiX, thus symbolizing their collaboration. In order to be listed on DistroWatch, MX Linux was presented as a version of antiX. It received its own DistroWatch page as a separate distribution with the release of the first Public Beta of MX-16 on November 2, 2016. Details here; release history here.

Dev Team

The MX Dev Team is composed of a group of volunteers of various backgrounds, talents and interests. Its administrative structure can be represented thus:

MX Repos

Debian Stable is a wonderful solid distribution that can be upgraded in place from version to version automatically as long as the Debian Stable repos are used exclusively. MX uses Debian Stable as a base, but updates a lot of the userland programs & libraries, and backports newer programs from testing by building them against the Stable base. That gives a better user experience but interferes with Debian's dist-upgrade path. Our current choice is to stick with sysvinit instead of going to full systemd.

So it's a trade-off: better desktop user experience at the expense of having to do a quick fresh install (which lets you save /home if desired) when the Debian base changes, typically every 2-3 years.

Special thanks for strong ongoing support of this project go to the MX Linux Packagers; to video producers Dolphin_Oracle, richb and m_pav; to our volunteers, especially Gordon Cooper and Old Giza; and to all our Translators!